Our reaction to the Cadillac F1 car launch
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What are the initial reactions to the Cadillac F1 car launch?
Hello everybody and welcome back to the P1 Podcast with Matt and Tommy. Cadillac 11th team reveal. That's right, we're back for another car launch. It is 3.24 in the morning and we have seen the Cadillac which has been revolved? That's not a word. Revealed.
Revealed.
During a Super Bowl ad that we did not see because, first and foremost, it came out about 45 minutes earlier than it was planned to. They put the Cadillac in a box and they were like, here's the timer. In Times Square.
What are the details of the Cadillac's car reveal event?
Yep. So we knew when it was going to be released and yet... That's not synced up with their Super Bowl ad because the Super Bowl apparently has gone quicker than expected. And so, lo and behold, as if with almost every F1 team, myself and Tommy get ready for a car launch at a certain time and then a video just drops. Oh, hit welcome to the team.
Yeah, I did wonder when they announced it was going to be during an advert. I was like, surely that just plays... They're not going to be able to get the exact time. But then for them to then do social media messaging going, all systems go, 10.30 in Times Square. I was like, well, okay, now we've got a specific time. So even if it's going to be at least around then, but for it to be nearly an hour before is crazy.
Okay, let's get into our first thoughts on the livery. Or should we say two halves of a livery? Oh, that's right, Cadillac. We see you with the... 1999 BAR. Yeah, they really took the BAR and went, let's make it slightly less fun. Let's do a BAR livery and have two very bland colours.
Without the colour.
Overall, look, I am... You might have seen our social media clip reacting to it. I was quite excited by the fact that they've gone for a little half-and-half livery, which didn't need to do that. Not sure what the reasoning behind them doing it was. But on closer inspection, and also with Tommy having shown me a concept livery that involved yellow for Cadillac, which is what they do in WECC, They could have gone a lot more beautiful with the colouring, which I'm in complete agreement of. I don't think it's a bad livery. I don't think it looks clean, right? I like clean. I don't like blocks, which they haven't really gone for. So in that sense, yeah, it's a – can I call it good? I don't know what I want to put.
It's professional.
It's a professional livery.
It's professional. However, I am dearly concerned about what this car will actually look like, considering these are renders, these are renders, what it actually will look like in an overcast day at Silverstone. Will it just look like a cloud?
Yeah, because especially because from the video that they launched, it looks almost like silver, which my initial thought was, why have they released a Mercedes? Like when I saw the delivery where it looks like silver and it's got the Tommy Hilfiger on the front and it's black and silver. I was like, oh, they've launched a Mercedes. And then it turns around and it's like, oh, it's the black Mercedes on the other side. So a nice double tribute to Mercedes. Yeah. My initial thought was like, come on now, you've got Audi that are silver and black, you've got Mercedes that are silver and black, and your chance as a new team to deliver something really interesting. You think about all the classic liveries of the years gone by and how everyone lost their mind over like,
McLaren doing the golf livery and how like bright and colorful it was and everyone loved it and you're like let's make it black and white or black and silver like come on guys like surely some a little bit of color would have been nice and I don't I don't know why they didn't do that because it's such a good way to like introduce yourself as a new team and be like look we're fun but instead it looks really kind of kind of very formula one corporate kind of weird uh particularly as as as you mentioned like there's always that thing in the back of my mind that like ah wouldn't it be cool if they went yellow because they're yellow in the weck their title sponsor is yellow as well
I think right now, as we're talking about it, it will be up on the screen.
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